Chicken Pen Plans

Your typical backyard chicken pen doesn’t have to be fancy. Nevertheless, with some good chicken pen plans you can throw together a high quality pen within a few hours, and it will even look good! This article covers all of your DIY chicken pen options, and shows you what we believe to be the best chicken pen plans available.First things first, what kind of chicken pen are you after? We’ve narrowed it down to the 3 most popular: the small/portable a-frame chicken pen, the mid-sized box chicken pen, and the hen house style chicken pen (all pictured below).You may be thinking that these are a bit too difficult to build, but rest assured that with the building plans we’ve found you can throw any of these up within a day (2 MAX).

Of course, each of these chicken pen options have their advantages and disadvantages. Depending on how many chickens you plan of keeping, the a-frame pen is often more than enough. If you’re living in an urban area with a larger backyard, you might consider the premium pen, as you can really make it look great with a few customizations.

If your plan wasn’t so much to build a complete chicken coop, but rather a secure chicken run, we’ve also got plans that cover that. Below is a digital image of a premium chicken pen run that you can build for under $20.As you can see, combining the run with any of the chicken pens is simple. The plans we normally recommend are all included in Bill Keene’s “Building A Chicken Coop” eBook, which you can read about on the Chicken Coop Plans section of this website. It includes all kinds of chicken pen plans, as well as info on how to raise chickens, how to position the coop correctly, how to properly build insulation, heating, etc..